Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Connoisseur Gaits. In the ring, the ringmaster called for a walk and Wing slowed down, though still strutting. Teater gave him a thank-you tap on the head. At the call for the "slow gait," Teater gave a twist on the snaffle rein and Wing moved into a gliding, four-beat amble...
Last night, on the basis of the sample taken, he said, "I wish to thank the students for what I consider a vote of confidence for the practical projects we have undertaken this year...
...didn't read the letter carefully," Beveridge said. "We thought it meant Harvard was supporting the Fund this year." Actually, the letter was just to thank the College for its contribution last fall, and to ask for support again this year...
...Rokossovsky, who has taken over the Polish Army "as a Pole" [TiME, Nov. 21], reminds me of the story about the Polish peasant woman whose son has just rushed home with the good news that their farm is no longer in Poland but is now a part of Russia. "Thank Heaven," said the old lady, "I don't think I could have lived through another Polish winter...
Pretty soon a meek student came to my bed and asked if I needed any books or assignments. He was from Phillips Brooks House. I said no thank you, and I almost felt like crying...